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Promoter Mark Higgins now says the lineup for Owen Sound's Big Music Fest 2012 will be unveiled Wednesday.

The one-day outdoor rock show is set for June 30 at Kelso Beach Park.

Seven bands will perform, he said. They include a multi-award-winning Canadian hard rock band, a multi-award-nominated Canadian post-grunge band and a popular Canadian pop-rock-rap band.

The first Big Music Fest in the area, held at the Wiarton-Keppel Airport in 2009, featured The Tragically Hip and attracted 15,000 people. A year later, the event was moved to Kelso Beach Park and attracted a crowd of more than 10,000 people. That concert featured Hedley and Our Lady Peace. Higgins pulled the plug on last year's Big Music Fest in April, after only 209 tickets were sold over the first seven days they were on sale.

SEVEN SENT TO HOSPITAL

Seven people were sent to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Friday after a car failed to stop at a stop sign and was struck by another car northeast of Wiarton, Bruce Peninsula OPP said Monday.

Six people were in a westbound vehicle, including two younger than 16 who weren't wearing seatbelts, Const. David Meyer said in a news release.

The vehicle was on Coveney's Rd. when it was struck by a northbound car on Purple Valley Rd. just before 5 p.m. The northbound driver, who had the right-of-way, Meyer said, saw a collision was imminent slowed just before the crash. The lone occupant of that car and all occupants of the other vehicle went to hospital.

Police charged a 35-year-old Chippewas of Nawash woman with failing to stop at a stop sign and two counts of failing to ensure that passengers under 16 were wearing their seatbelts.

RACING CHARGE

Grey County OPP said they clocked a car travelling more than 150 kilometres per hour in an 80 km/h zone about 7:10 p.m. Friday

Police charged an 18-year-old Georgian Bluffs male, who was driving a 1997 Pontiac SFS, with racing and summonsed him to Provincial Offences court to answer the charge.

His driver's licence was suspended for seven days and his car was impounded for seven days, police said in a news release Monday.

BUSINESSES BROKEN INTO

Someone broke into a machine shop and an insurance office in Chesley and made off with a blue wrecking bar and some cash-drawer change.

Doors were forced open at both places of business between Friday night and Saturday morning. South Bruce OPP hope anyone with information about the crimes will come forward to help identify who is responsible for the thefts.